Domani alla Biblioteca

Being held at the checkout desk for me are: Mark Wrathall's How to read Heidegger; Peter Watson's Twins : an uncanny relationship, and Psychology and race: John Montgomery's How to read Mayan hieroglyphs.  In transit are: Watson's Ideas : a history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud, and The modern mind : an intellectual history of the 20th century.  The only thing I'm really looking forward to with unalloyed delight is How to read Mayan hieroglyphs--knowing that they aren't really hieroglyphs at all, but a phonetic syllabary, which is a much more sophisticated and interesting thing.